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Rail Minister Huw Merriman visited Network Rail colleagues today (Wednesday 12 April) to see the progress being made upgrading track and strengthening embankments along this key commuter line between Tunbridge Wells and Hastings. Fiona Taylor, Network Rail’s Kent route director,...

Porterbrook’s Long Marston Rail Innovation Centre has hosted Network Rail’s major incident training involving multi-agency partners and Emergency Services, to exercise the response to a major incident on the railway. During two separate weeks in March, over 300 people took...

Rhino Doors, the UK’s leading manufacturer of high-performance engineered doors, has nearly completed work on a complex £1 million-plus contract on the London Underground network. The project, which involved designing, manufacturing and installing 20 self-closing fire doors in the cross passages at Bank Station, presented a number of logistical challenges. “As...

This Easter, one of the biggest cranes in Europe visited Clapham Junction station in south west London to install a brand new and wider staircase. Over the Easter weekend Network Rail engineers and supply chain partners successfully removed and replaced...

Rail passengers travelling to Liverpool Lime Street for the Grand National are being given top tips to help them get off to a winning start when the world-famous horse racing festival returns this Thursday. With bumper crowds expected to travel...

Network Rail has completed a range of essential upgrades to the railway between London Euston, the Midlands, North West and Scotland over Easter. Between Friday 7 and Tuesday 11 April, teams carried out vital work on the railway to improve passenger...

The railway between London Euston and Milton Keynes has reopened for passengers and freight today after major upgrades over Easter. All four lines of the West Coast main line were closed in Watford over the long bank holiday weekend so...

The railway between Carlisle and Lancaster and in Crewe has reopened for passengers and freight today after major improvement work over the Easter bank holiday. Network Rail invested £5m to improve future journeys on the West Coast main line between...

The countdown has begun to Railtex 2023, the number one showcase for railway technology and infrastructure in the UK. Taking place on 09-11 May at Birmingham’s NEC, the event will once again bring together the entire industry, presenting the...

Engineers from Network Rail and contractors, AmcoGiffen, completed lifting a fifteen-piece footbridge using a mobile 230-tonne-crane at Llanhilleth, South Wales, last week.   The five-day closure of the line, from 25 to 30 March, saw a team of 13 engineers guiding...